Unredeemed Land
An Environmental History of Civil War and Emancipation in the Cotton South
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 29 November 2018
- ISBN 9780190865177
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 157x236x25 mm
- Weight 599 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 17 hts 0
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Unredeemed Land examines the ways the Civil War and the emancipation of the slaves reconfigured the South's natural landscape, revealing the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century.
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How did the Civil War and the emancipation of the South's four million slaves reconfigure the natural landscape and the farming economy dependent upon it? An innovative reconsideration of the Civil War's role in southern history, Unredeemed Land uncovers the environmental constraints that shaped the rural South's transition to capitalism during the late nineteenth century. Dixie's "King Cotton" required extensive land use techniques, fresh soil, and slave-based agriculture in order to remain profitable. But wartime destruction and the rise of the contract labor system closed off those possibilities and necessitated increasingly intensive cultivation in ways that worked against the environment. The resulting disconnect between farmers' use of the land and what the natural environment could support went hand-in-hand with the economic dislocation of freedpeople, poor farmers, and sharecroppers.
Erin Stewart Mauldin demonstrates how the Civil War and emancipation accelerated ongoing ecological change in ways that hastened the postbellum collapse of the region's subsistence economy, encouraged the expansion of cotton production, and ultimately kept cotton farmers trapped in a cycle of debt and tenancy.
The first environmental history to bridge the antebellum, Civil War, and Reconstruction periods, this work will appeal to anyone who is interested in the landscape of the South or the legacies of the Civil War.
Mauldin's well-researched book investigates the fascinating story of land in the Cotton South and how it was farmed in the years from 1840 to the 1880s, offering a new agricultural and environmental history of the Civil War and emancipation.... Unredeemed Land argue[s] for the vibrant possibilities of analyzing the environmental impacts of the Civil War—and other major conflicts—on the daily life and material futures of communities and individuals.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Deferring Crisis
Chapter 2: Revealing Vulnerabilities
Chapter 3: Intensifying Production
Chapter 4: Accelerating Change
Chapter 5: Facing Limits
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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